The Canary Islands Health Service has been ordered to compensate a couple with 110,000 euros for the death of their baby during childbirth at the Molina Orosa Hospital in Arrecife. The death of the baby occurred at birth, "as a C-section was not performed in time", explains the Patient Advocate, whose legal services in the Canary Islands have taken over the defense of the case.
The events took place on January 31, 2012 at the Molina Orosa hospital, when the mother, who was 40 weeks pregnant, went to the emergency service. "Despite detecting variable decelerations accompanied by fetal bradycardia, monitoring was interrupted," explains the Patient Advocate in its statement. This meant that the baby's "acute fetal distress" was not noticed, "which made the practice of a C-section urgent from at least 6:00 p.m.". Despite this, the procedure was not carried out until 7:40 p.m., almost an hour and three quarters later.
As a result, according to the Patient Advocate, the girl was born in cardiorespiratory arrest, from which it was not possible to resuscitate her. This association also explains that in light of these events, a "patrimonial claim" was filed with the SCS, which did not receive an "express response". Thus, a lawsuit was filed with the Contentious-Administrative Court number 4 of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, which finally admitted the family's allegations and ordered the SCS to pay the compensation "plus legal interest".
In its statement, the Patient Advocate also refers to two other convictions of the Canary Islands Health Service. On the one hand, the SCS must compensate the daughters of a patient who died of cancer in Tenerife with 30,155 euros for "lack of early diagnosis". The patient, the association relates, spent the last months of her life "suffering great physical and mental deterioration, barely able to eat" since, "despite multiple visits to her health center" and the "visible physical signs of her deterioration", there was a late diagnosis of cancer. The SCS must also pay 31,878 euros to a family from Tenerife. This family had to face the expenses to transfer their son to Madrid, in an airplane with "private health personnel", so that he could be operated on for the disease of the so-called rare diseases that he suffered. In this case, they emphasize, "an urgent solution was not offered as required by the administration".
